“having the opportunity to do a comedy for the first time. But underneath all of the comedy, was this really beautiful message of love”
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Shailene Woodley
Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley's breakthrough role came as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013). She then starred in the films The Descendants (2011), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and The Spectacular Now (2013).
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entertainment · American actress (born 1991) · actor · television actor · film actor · film producer · environmentalist · also Shailene Woodley, Shai, Shaileney Beany, Woodley
Born 15 November 1991 · Q231058
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
It was announced that Woodley would star in the Hulu limited series Count My Lies alongside Lindsay Lohan and Kit Harington
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: To Catch a Killer review – Shailene Woodley sniper thriller like mid-season CSI
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Woodley starred in and produced the crime thriller film To Catch a Killer
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Also appeared in the Italian docufilm Materia Viva focused on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) alongside Susan Sarandon to talk about their care and activism for the environment
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Woodley joined Greenpeace in Paris, demanding the United Nations create a strong and ambitious Global Treaty that would effectively end plastic pollution
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2022· 1 entry
Woodley became inaugural member of GoodLeap's Advisory Council, which seeks to help the company continue its exponential growth and mission to connect a world where everyone can live more sustainably
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Shailene Woodley: ‘Authenticity is my love language’
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Woodley had a supporting role in Kevin Macdonald's real-life Guantanamo Bay drama film The Mauritanian alongside Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch
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2020· 1 entry
Woodley partnered with Karün, a certified B Corp that creates high-quality eyewear using recycled waste like fishing nets, ropes, and metals collected by local rural entrepreneurs
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2019· 2 entries
Supported Indigenized Energy, a local nonprofit that brings solar energy and jobs to Native Americans
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Woodley starred in the romantic drama Endings, Beginnings alongside Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, and Matthew Gray Gubler
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2018· 5 entries
The Guardian: Adrift review – shipshape Shailene Woodley keeps survival drama buoyant
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Woodley took activist Calina Lawrence to the 75th Golden Globe Awards as her guest
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“I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are”
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Confirmed she was dating Australian-Fijian rugby union player Ben Volavola
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Titled "Solving Our Climate Crisis", hosted by Our Revolution founder Bernie Sanders
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2017· 3 entries
Wrote an opinion piece for The Hill, titled "US Should Run on Renewable Energy by 2050"
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The Sierra Club honored Woodley at its 125th Anniversary Trail Blazers Ball, for her grassroots activism
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Woodley starred as a sexual assault survivor, alongside Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, in the HBO critically acclaimed drama series Big Little Lies directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
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2016· 6 entries
The Guardian: Shailene Woodley explains her North Dakota oil pipeline protest
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The Guardian: Actor Shailene Woodley livestreams own arrest – video
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The Guardian: Shailene Woodley arrested while protesting North Dakota oil pipeline
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Woodley was honored at the 20th Anniversary Global Green Environmental Awards, receiving the Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership Award for co-founding All it Takes
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Awarded People's Choice Awards for The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2016).
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Woodley protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an underground petroleum transport pipeline
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2015· 6 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for The Fault in Our Stars (2015).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Performance for The Fault in Our Stars (2015).
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Awarded People's Choice Awards for Divergent (2015).
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Awarded MTV Movie & TV Awards (2015).
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Woodley took a break from filming for nearly a year and considered quitting as an actor, stating in a later interview that she "had hit a wall with acting" and "felt it was time to do something different"
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Woodley reprised her role as Tris in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second installment in The Divergent Series
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2014· 5 entries
Received The Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Breakout Performance – Actress for her depiction of Hazel
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To wider audiences, where it received mixed reviews
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Awarded MTV Movie & TV Awards for Divergent (2014).
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Woodley starred as Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars, the film adaptation of John Green's novel of the same name
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Woodley starred as Beatrice "Tris" Prior in the film Divergent, an adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-selling young-adult novel of the same name, and the first installment in The Divergent Series
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for The Descendants (2012).
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Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for The Descendants (2012).
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Awarded Trophée Chopard for The Descendants (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Woodley made her feature film debut in Alexander Payne's The Descendants, where she played Alex, the troubled elder daughter of Matt King (played by George Clooney)
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2010· 1 entry
And her mother co-founded the nonprofit organization All it Takes, a youth leadership program that aims to educate young people to practice empathy, compassion, responsibility, and purpose in hopes to foster sustaina
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1999· 1 entry
With a minor role in the television film Replacing Dad
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1991· 1 entry
Born 1991-11-15.
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